A Chinese Northern Song Junyao ""bubble' bowl, stoneware, graceful rounded sides, tapering to an unglazed foot ring. The top rim is slightly inverted. The bowl is fine grained grey clay, fired as stoneware. The glaze is slightly blue, with definite...

Eugene C. Reed joined the staff of the Conservation and Survey Division as a geologist in 1933. Becoming Associate Director in 1944, he toiled at the survey during Condras declining years before being named Director in 1954. Reed stressed the...

Plan of the second Theatre de l'Odeon originally built for the Comedie Francaise in 1782 ; note the horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; also the seated pit, an innovation in France ; note that the stage is deeper than the auditorium

Plan of the second Theatre de l'Odeon originally built for the Comedie Francaise in 1782 ; note the horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; also the seated pit, an innovation in France ; note that the stage is deeper than the auditorium

Elevation, section, plan and interior of the second Theatre de l'Odeon originally built for the Comedie Francaise in 1782 ; note the horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; also the seated pit, an innovation in France ; note that the stage is deeper than the...